POLICY/RESEARCH

Ghana’s food needs beyond rain-fed agriculture. While Ghana’s services sector continues to grow at a fast rate — the same cannot be said about the agricultural sector which employs about 44.7 percent of the working population. Among one of the key ...

The Action Plan for Soil Pollution Prevention and Control aims to improve soil quality and ensure safe agricultural products and a healthy living environment for people, according to the State Council, or China’s cabinet. The document said China will curb ...

How Agriculture will contribute to alleviating poverty and ameliorate the lives of all Nigerians (including those in Non-Agricultural sectors) Our national economic live revolves around activities that promotes quality life for all people. These activities encompasses various sectors of the economy ...

For centuries, the economies of African countries have been made dependent on advanced economies, and despite the enormous amount of natural resources in Africa, over 500 million citizens continue to live in poverty. A case in point is the cocoa ...

Ghana is home to diverse money yielding plants, cash crops and trees which have over the years attracted both local industrialists and global investors to inject capital and to make reasonable returns on their investments. Rubber plantation is one of ...

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna, has allayed fears that Ghana faces eminent famine contrary to expertise views that, the country may possibly face food insecurity following erratic rainfall pattern and the decline in growth by ...

A new study suggests that emissions from cars or power plants are not the biggest sources of air pollution. Rather, emissions from farming outweigh these major factors. Previous studies have found that crop production in farms contributes to the annual carbon ...

A new United Nations Environment (UNEP) report suggest that the cost of adapting to climate change in developing countries could rise from $ 280 to $ 500 billion per year by 2050. The figure is four to five times greater ...

Quality of food should not be compromised, but how sure are you that the vegetables and fruits you buy from the local market are wholesome? Shakespeare Djokoto an agronomist with over two decades of experience reveals the agronomic practices by ...

One in five types of plant worldwide is at risk of extinction from threats such as farming and logging that are wrecking many habitats, a first global overview of plant life said on Tuesday. In total, 391,000 types of plants ...